OBJECTIVESThe purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss the status of H-mode and internal transport barrier experiments, theory and modeling in magnetic fusion research and to discuss scientific solutions of H-mode control for the purpose of exploring possibilities of advanced operating scenarios in next step large fusion devices.

WORKSHOP FORMATThe workshop will be organized around six broad topics of current interest. An overview talk, accompanied by discussion, will be presented for each topic. Each talk will be followed by a poster session of contributed papers, related to the topic.To achieve the purpose of the workshop, the International Advisory Committee solicits contributed papers that present and discuss recent experimental, theoretical or modeling studies of transport barriers, both internal and edge, as observed in numerous magnetic confinement machines and in a variety of magnetic topologies.

DATES AND VENUEThe workshop starts at 9:00, 13 September and ends at 17:30, 15 September 2017. The venue of the workshop is hotel “Moscow”, St. Petersburg. The workshop is organized by Ioffe Institute.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERSAccording to the tradition, Overview and Contributed papers presented at the workshop are published in a special issue of the Nuclear Fusion journal (see papers from HMWS-2015: http://iopscience.iop.org/issue/0029-5515/57/2). Participants are encouraged to publish their presentations in the special issue of Nuclear Fusion dedicated to 16th International Workshop on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers.